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50-Year Urban Expansion Patterns in Shanghai: Analysis Using Impervious Surface Data and Simulation Models

Land, 2023
Megacities serve as crucial catalysts for national economic and social development, and Shanghai, one of China’s most prominent metropolitan areas, exemplifies this transformative urbanization. To study Shanghai’s urban expansion, we extracted urban land
Chen Gao +6 more
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Forest Transition and Metropolitan Transformations in Developed Countries: Interpreting Apparent and Latent Dynamics with Local Regression Models

Land, 2021
Metropolitan fringes in Southern Europe preserve, under different territorial contexts, natural habitats, relict woodlands, and mixed agro-forest systems acting as a sink of biodiversity and ecosystem services in ecologically vulnerable landscapes ...
Leonardo Bianchini +5 more
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Exploring the Patterns and Drivers of Urban Expansion in the Texas Triangle Megaregion

Land, 2021
As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, it is vital for planners and policy-makers to understand the patterns of urban expansion and the underlying driving forces.
Jiani Guo, Ming Zhang
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Toward a Spatially Segregated Urban Growth? Austerity, Poverty, and the Demographic Decline of Metropolitan Greece

Data, 2023
Metropolitan decline in southern Europe was documented in few cases, being less intensively investigated than in other regions of the continent. Likely for the first time in recent history, the aftermath of the 2007 recession was a time period associated
Kostas Rontos +4 more
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Spatial and Temporal Analyses of the Expansion of Built-Up Areas in Nanjing Metropolitan Area Based on Industrial Big Data

Redai dili, 2023
With the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as a national strategy, urban development in the Nanjing metropolitan area has entered a new stage.
Wang Yiwen, Xu Jiangang, Liu Di
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New indices to capture the evolution characteristics of urban expansion structure and form

Ecological Indicators, 2021
A quantitative description is the basis for correctly understanding the urban expansion process. Previous approaches were dedicated to identifying expansion types based on the boundary sharing rate, thereby depicting the evolution of urban expansion ...
Jiafeng Liu +8 more
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Land degradation and metropolitan expansion in a peri-urban environment

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2021
The couple rapid urbanization and policy failure in controlling urban expansion was sometimes associated to soil and land degradation phenomena in both developing and developed countries.
Vito Imbrenda +7 more
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Confins, 2021
The popular horizontal gated communities are real estate products developed within the scope of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program (PMCMV) that have spread in brazilian urban/metropolitan areas in the last decade, especially in more peripheral areas. With
Patricia Baliski
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Impact of Uneven Lighting Environments on Guide Sign Visibility in Interchange Areas of Road Tunnels: A Study of Bright-to-Dark Transitions in Diverging Area

Applied Sciences
To investigate the impact of “bright to dark” uneven lighting conditions on driver recognition of retroreflective guide signs in the diverging zones of underwater ramp interchanges, this study adjusts the luminance contrast between adjacent lighting ...
Yuping Zhang +5 more
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Analysis of Relationships Between Distribution of Population and Spatial Economy of Communes in the Kraków Metropolitan Area

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2008
The expansion of developed areas is one the factors that influence the distribution of population. Spatial policy implemented by communes reflects the existing tendencies but is also a factor that moulds the occurring processes.
Katarzyna Gorczyca
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